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Feels like it was rushed out - LTE upgrade needs that you send the hardware back to Motorola, the OS seems a bit buggy and there are not many optimized apps ava

Feels like it was rushed out - LTE upgrade needs that you send the hardware back to Motorola, the OS seems a bit buggy and there are not many optimized apps available yet. On the other hand the hardware is great, the OS is mostly there and apps will most likely be there before long. The iPad's existence for a year and the looming 2nd gen makes situation worrying for Motorola - if it wasn't for the iPad, these would've been the points that would be ignored.

czhiddy 16y ago
If they had waited for an optimized Flash implementation and spent more time fixing the OS bugs, they would have been beaten to market by the iPad 2 by a couple of months - most likely a death sentence at that point. Rushing it out is the smartest option, even if it means bizarre stuff like having a non-functional microSD slot.
- blinkingled 16y ago
  Yeah, I guess depends on how you look at it. May be iPad 2 is going to be a modest update and Xoom coming in a month later with Flash, SD Card, LTE and all wrinkles ironed out would have still been equally interesting because of the unique features over the iPad 2.
- mryall 16y ago
  > Rushing it out is the smartest option ... Maybe if they just want to sell to early adopters and technical folks. All the non-techos I know who bought iPads have done so because they see it works pretty much flawlessly and doesn't have all the annoying problems that plague PCs. Motorola can't really expect to sell many devices in the consumer market with serious issues like these. People will just pick the iPad because it's cheaper and works better.
orangecat 16y ago
there are not many optimized apps available yet True, but I'd expect unoptimized Android apps to work reasonably well. Android's "fragmentation" is an advantage here: developers have known from day one that they have to support arbitrary resolutions, so apps should scale to a tablet much better than how the iPad pixel-doubles iPhone apps.

czhiddy 16y ago

If they had waited for an optimized Flash implementation and spent more time fixing the OS bugs, they would have been beaten to market by the iPad 2 by a couple of months - most likely a death sentence at that point. Rushing it out is the smartest option, even if it means bizarre stuff like having a non-functional microSD slot.

blinkingled 16y ago
Yeah, I guess depends on how you look at it. May be iPad 2 is going to be a modest update and Xoom coming in a month later with Flash, SD Card, LTE and all wrinkles ironed out would have still been equally interesting because of the unique features over the iPad 2.
mryall 16y ago
> Rushing it out is the smartest option ... Maybe if they just want to sell to early adopters and technical folks. All the non-techos I know who bought iPads have done so because they see it works pretty much flawlessly and doesn't have all the annoying problems that plague PCs. Motorola can't really expect to sell many devices in the consumer market with serious issues like these. People will just pick the iPad because it's cheaper and works better.

orangecat 16y ago

there are not many optimized apps available yet True, but I'd expect unoptimized Android apps to work reasonably well. Android's "fragmentation" is an advantage here: developers have known from day one that they have to support arbitrary resolutions, so apps should scale to a tablet much better than how the iPad pixel-doubles iPhone apps.